LAWYER PROFILE

Sara George

UK 2026

Sidley Austin LLP

Ranked in 3 practice areas

Financial Services: Contentious Regulatory (Individuals)

UK-wide

2 years ranked

Financial Crime: Individuals

London (Firms)

9 years ranked

Corporate Crime & Investigations

London (Firms)

2 years ranked

About

Provided by Sidley Austin LLP

UK

Practice Areas

SARA GEORGE is Sidley's lead Crisis Management and Strategic Response lawyer in Europe. She is a former prosecutor for the Financial Services Authority (FSA), and brought the first criminal prosecution by the FSA against a director for misleading the market (Regina v. Rigby and Bailey), the first Listing Rule contravention, numerous market abuse cases, and refusals of authorization.

Sara has extensive experience representing corporations in crisis situations and in matters involving allegations of criminal misconduct, including market abuse, insider dealing, money laundering, cybersecurity breaches, fraud, corruption, and bribery.

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Financial Services: Contentious Regulatory (Individuals) - UK-wide

Band 1

Individual Editorial

Sara George focuses her practice on representing individuals such as high net worth individuals. She maintains a notably strong practice at the intersection of financial crime and regulatory enforcement. She is adept at handling cross-border enforcement and investigations.

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Financial Crime: Individuals - London (Firms)

Band 2

Individual Editorial

Sara George of Sidley Austin represents senior individuals and employees in investigations brought by the SFO and NCA, as well as their foreign counterparts. She regularly advises on cases involving money laundering, bribery, insider trading and rate manipulation.

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Corporate Crime & Investigations - London (Firms)

Band 3

Individual Editorial

Sara George of Sidley Austin has a broad practice extending from internal investigations to compliance and self-reporting measures, advising on bribery, corruption and money laundering matters.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Sara is a truly excellent individual, who goes the extra mile to help her clients. She is extremely knowledgeable, well respected and superb at her job.
Financial Services: Contentious Regulatory (Individuals)Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession
Sara is a leader, she is top class for white collar and contentious matters and has enormous expertise. She is very effective, committed to clients, very compassionate and gets great results.
Financial Services: Contentious Regulatory (Individuals)Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession
Sara is supremely committed, deft, commercial and pragmatic.
Financial Crime: IndividualsChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
She is a great professional, a great team member and leader too.
Financial Crime: IndividualsChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
Sara was super hard-working, culturally aware and diligent. She has attention to detail and really knows her stuff.
Financial Crime: IndividualsChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
Sara is outstanding.
Corporate Crime & InvestigationsChambers Guide to the Legal Profession